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The great river of Egypt. Nile bird. (Zoöl.) (a) The wryneck. [Prov. Eng.] (b) The crocodile bird. -- Nile goose (Zoöl.), the Egyptian goose. See Note under Goose, 2.

Old-womanish; imbecile. "Anile ideas." Walpole.

Anility. [R.]

A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church. Many of the campaniles od Italy are lofty and magnificent atructures. Swift.

Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance. "A juvenile exercitation." Glanvill.

The state or quality of being juvenile; juvenility.

Destitute of money; impecunious; poor. -- Pen"ni*less*ness, n.

ding from, or characteristic of, old age; affected with the infirmities of old age; as, senile weakness. "Senile maturity of judgment." Boyle. Senile gangrene (Med.), a form of gangrene occuring particularly in old people, and caused usually by insufficient blood supply due to degeneration of the walls of the smaller a…

Suiting a salve; servile; obsequious. [R.] The example . . . of vernile scurrility. De Quincey.

year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly. The annual overflowing of the river [Nile]. Ray.

placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile.

A large, edible, siluroid fish of the Nile, of two species (Bagrina bayad and B. docmac).

ell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile.

ensively cultivated as a forage plant and soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called also Egyptian clover.

A remarkable ganoid fish (Polypterus bichir) found in the Nile and other African rivers. See Brachioganoidei.

A large species of barbel (Barbus bynni), found in the Nile, and much esteemed for food.

An edible fish of the Nile (genus Chromis). [Written also bulti.]

tropical parts of America and Africa. Some are valuable food fishes, as the bulti of the Nile.

w smartly out of the hand; to pitch. [Colloq.] "Mahomet Ali will just be chucked into the Nile." Lord Palmerson.

The principal sect of Christians in Egypt and the valley of the Nile.